Sarvadarshanasangraha 13.28

13.28

And the author of the Bhāṣya explained: 'Four horns' are the four classes of words: noun, verb, prefix, and particle. 'Three are his feet' are the three tenses—past, future, and present—which are the domain of affixes such as laṭ. 'Two are his heads' are the two forms of word: eternal and produced, by the distinction between what is manifested and what manifests. 'Seven are his hands' are the seven nominal case-endings, along with the verbal endings. 'Bound in three ways' means bound in three places: in the chest, the throat, and the head. 'The bull'—this metaphor is made through the familiar nature of a bull—because of raining down; and 'raining down' is the bestowing of fruit through action preceded by knowledge. 'Bellows loudly' means makes a sound; the verb ru means the action of sounding; here the manifold world is intended by the word 'sound'. 'The great god has entered mortals' means the great god is Word, and mortals are men subject to the condition of death—he has entered them. Thus equality with the Great God, the supreme Brahman, is said to be stated.